WCCO paid a visit to Mann, who explained that when he was four his father died and – being the only boy in the family – certain chores just fell to him. Evidently, some of them still seem to be automatic for him nearly a century later.

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Why is the video of him so popular? His daughter Margo Mann tells WCCO it has to do with kindness: "... because there are so many things going on that are not, you know, people are not being kind to each other. And kindness is the key to having a successful and good life.”

We already know that people around the country associate Minnesota with snow. We could do worse than to have them associate the snow with people like Richard Mann.